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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
an Easter vigil alive at east campus
A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and -
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Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.
bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and -
Blog / Advice
Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings
never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting -
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Life is Improv say yes
The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person -
Blog / About Decisions
November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction
These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really -
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Save Point sleep wake hope
It's been over two weeks since I last blogged, and I've been working ... a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then discarding and reweaving them until they sparkle and sound just the way I want -
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How to date at an American college Things we never talk about
real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... having seen many friends and classmates navigate the confusing, emotionally draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and -
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[Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit
and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
/wing/entry/house/floor, your frat, your sorority, your independent living group, etc. and celebrate and show your community spirit! And one of the main ways people do ... already a HUGE line. And when we got inside, Kresge was already more than -
Blog / Academics & Research
HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help
.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so -
Blog / About Decisions
This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications
meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... least if, like me, you're a fan of both productivity hacks and science -
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REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…
Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week -
Blog / About Decisions
Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.
and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... and small high schools, cities and villages, and performed what amounted -
Blog / Admissions
My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.
sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at the Cosi at 13th Street and 6th Avenue with a young recent graduate ... liked the drawing I'd made while waiting for him and seemed really -
Blog / Academics & Research
If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.
just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph -
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Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python
, Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and ... reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... setbacks and mistakes, I gained resilience and principle. My freshman year at -
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Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience
my sorority has ended up being one of the one of the best and most ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT has six sororities, and the MIT Panhellenic Council (Panhel) is the -
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A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format
"]viral[/annotation] and some remained fairly unread, but I *think* that most of them ended ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... Ave from across Lobby 7: always reminded me that wow, I go to MIT. And -
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Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.
is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of ... is vines and fire escapes up brick walls, streetlights leaning against steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways